When I was little, my grandmother used to tell me that dog poo had glass in it & I would cut my foot if I ever stepped in it. It worked as I never stepped in dog poo. Grandma knew best!
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I used to believe (no laughing please), that ants got suntan if you reflected the light on it from a magnifying glass.
When we lived in South Dakota, my dad went hunting with his best friend all the time. Up until I was 17 yrs old even, even though I'd heard the legentds and stories, my dad and his friend had me completely convinced that Jack-a-Lopes were real. They said they'd seen them plenty of times...
I used to believe that worms was the baby form of a snake. I also used to believe that frogs were the baby form of turtles.
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I used to believe that bears and wolves were just made-up animals like dragons and unicorns because I never saw them.
When i went to an aquarium i was really excited and couldnt wait to find see my favourite type of fish. I burst into tears when i found out that my favourite type of fish, fish fingers werent actually a breed of fish.
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i used to think that dogs were males and cats were females. i only recently discovered that someone else used to think that too when they were a kid. whew!
Recently someone told me that if you tipped a cow it would die. i believed that for a couple weeks until my mom convinced me it wasn't true. Talk about blonde moment.
When my friend was little she had a pet slug but she didn't know what to feed it so she went to her brothers for help. Upon asking what they ate they told her "slugs eat salt." She cried and cried when she found out slugs did not like salt!
When I was about 7 I found my cat in the basement, nursing baby kittens. The kittens were only about a day old, hairless and kinda scary looking to a 7 year old. I apparently had never wondered where baby kitties came from. I ran upstairs screaming to my mother that there were rats eating my cat. I guess I was a little naive, even for a 7 year old.
When I was little, I believed that all cats were girls and all dogs were boys. Go figure!
I used to believe that birds poop in a toilet and live there.I believed that when I was 5.
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i thought there was a huge sprider that hid just around the bend of the pipe and when i sat on the toilet it would come out and sink it's fangs into my bum.
i'm 15 and i have an overactive imagination and i have made myself believe that my cat is someone that i know who is spying on me.but i don't know whi she really is. it really freaks me out.
this is kindof true.when we were younger my brother and i used to love drowning slaters in the backyard.but one day my brother did it in the baisin and then let the plug out and they all went down the sink.a while later i went to the toilet and i was just going to wash my hands when i saw that the slaters had crawled back up the drain.i thought they hed come for revenge for trying to drown them.so i flushed them back down.but for ages after that i always left the plug in the basin after washing my hands just so that they couldn't get back up.even today i still sometimes look down the drain before i wash my hands just to make sure they're not there.
When I was really, really little my dad had the original Star Wars films on video he got from a "friend" who lived on a boat (I think it was pirated as my dad and uncle fell about laughing at this point)and I was absolutely terrified of Jabba the Hutt. My dad, being a caring soul, told me that slugs were all Jabba's children and if I stepped on them anymore, Jabba would come and eat me. Strangely, I never remember slugs before this point ( must have been about 4), but I never stepped on any.
Dad had to explain he was only joking about Jabba about two years later when I freaked out because my cousin's dog was eating slugs.
I was playing in the dirt one day (being the little scraped-up kneed, tomboyish kid I was) And my dad came up to me and said that dirt was actually worm poop. I was so disgusted that I went to the bathroom to wash my hands (like 35 times) and then I ran up the stairs to go and cry on my bed. SERIOUSLY! I cried for about half an hour while my dad was trying to convince me that what he had said wasn't true....which I'm really not sure that it still isn't true...where DOES dirt come from,anyway??
The first time I got a new fish from the pet store, I thought it was a snow globe. On the ay back home, I was sitting in the backseat of the car when my mother had noticed that I was shaking the inflated bag ferociously (fish inside of it and all)! Needless to say, i was never allowed to hold the fish baggies ever again. To this day, I still can't. It positively gives me the willies. I'm 21 now, go figure.
I used to think that orangutans were pronounced orange-oo-tins, not o-rang-uh-tangs. I'm embarrassed to say, I was in my 20's, had just taken my kids to the zoo and was telling my niece (using my scholarly attitude) that my favorite was the orange-oo-tins. Never live that one down!
when I was little, I believed that when I went to school, my pet cats went to a kitty school. so when i'd get home, i always asked them how their day was and what they learned.